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The IBM System x3650 M4 server provides outstanding performance for your business-critical applications. Its energy-efficient design supports more cores, memory, and data capacity in a scalable 2U package that is easy to service and manage. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. This powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud deployments.

Combining balanced performance and flexibility, the x3650 M4 is a great choice for small and medium businesses up to the large enterprise. It can provide outstanding uptime to keep business-critical applications and cloud deployments running safely. Ease of use and comprehensive systems management tools make it easy to deploy. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your business environment and help save operational costs.

The x3650 M4 offers a flexible, scalable design and simple upgrade path to 16 hard-disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs) plus optical and tape drives at the same time, with up to six PCIe Gen 3 slots and up to 768 GB of memory. This flexible onboard Ethernet solution provides four standard embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional embedded 10Gb Ethernet ports without occupying PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools with the next-generation Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) make it easy to deploy, integrate, service, and manage.

Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family improves productivity by offering superior system performance with 8-core processors and up to 2.9GHz core speeds, up to 20MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8GT/s QPI interconnect links.

Up to two processors, 16 cores, and 32 threads maximize the concurrent execution of multi-threaded applications.

Theoretical maximum memory bandwidth of the Intel Xeon processor E5 family is 51.6GB/s, which is 60% more than in the previous generation of Intel Xeon processors.

The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second (IOPS) than a typical HDD.

Up to 16 drive bays, together with internal backup and an optical drive at the same time, provide a flexible and scalable all-in-one platform to meet your increasing demands.

The server has four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional 10 Gb Ethernet ports with mezzanine cards that do not consume PICe slots.

8GB (1x8GB) PC3L-10600 CL9 ECC 1333 MHz LP RDIMM.There are 24 DIMM slots, 12 per processor. Maximum memory:With LRDIMMs: Up to 768GB with 24x32GB LRDIMMs and two processorsWith RDIMMs: Up to 384GB with 24x16GB RDIMMs and two processorsWith UDIMMs: Up to 32GB with 16x2GB UDIMMs and two processors

Memory notes:The server supports UDIMMs, RDIMMs, and LRDIMMs. Mixing different types of memory (UDIMMs, RDIMMs, and LRDIMMs) is not supported. Mixing 1.5V and 1.35V DIMMs in the same server is supported. In such a case all DIMMs operate at 1.5V. The maximum number of ranks per channel is eight (with the exception of Load Reduced DIMMs, where more than eight ranks are supported because one quad-rank LRDIMM provides the same electrical load on a memory bus as a single-rank RDIMM). The maximum quantity of DIMMs that can be installed in a server depends on the number of CPUs, DIMM type, rank, and operating voltage.All DIMMs in the server operate at the same speed, which is determined as the lowest value of: - Memory speed supported by specific CPU - Lowest maximum operating speed for the selected memory configuration that depends on rated speed, operating voltage, and quantity of DIMMs per channel.

See the IBM ServerProven website for the latest information about the specific versions and service levels supported and any other prerequisites:http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/nos/matrix.shtml